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- See also changes related to First language acquisition, or pages that link to First language acquisition or to this page or whose text contains "First language acquisition".
Parent topics
- Language (general) [r]: A type of communication system, commonly used in linguistics, computer science and other fields to refer to different systems, including 'natural language' in humans, programming languages run on computers, and so on. A wider definition of language - what counts as a language and what doesn't - is a difficult philosophical topic, deserving an article in its own right. [e]
- Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. [e]
- Language acquisition [r]: The study of how language comes to users of first and second languages. [e]
- Learning [r]: The process of structuring new knowledge. [e]
Subtopics
- Nativism (psychology) [r]: theory that certain traits of a species emerge from a mind that is already prepared for its environment, e.g. the language ability is not learned but 'acquired' due to innate processes. [e]
- Babbling [r]: Add brief definition or description
Notable figures
- Noam Chomsky [r]: American linguist, MIT professor and political activist. [e]
- B.F. Skinner [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Steven Pinker [r]: (b. 18 September 1954) Canadian experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular science, known for his wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. [e]
- Second language acquision [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Language attrition [r]: The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language by individuals. [e]
- Behaviorism [r]: A major branch of psychology, started by Ivan Pavlov, which characterizes behavior in terms of stimuli and responses [e]